Gayathri
| Monday, December 19, 2016 10:29 AM IST

The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) today announced that it will award a total of 590 scholarships worth Rs 3.53 crore to bright and deserving students for academic year 2017-18.

This year the university is awarding scholarships worth Rs 1.53 crore more compared to last academic year and has included new programmes like B Design, B Planning and MBA.

There are also special scholarships for Uttarakhand Domicile students and UPES will award scholarships to 150 toppers from Uttarakhand Board as per the eligibility criteria. Apart from scholarships to under-graduate students, UPES is also offering teaching assistantship to students planning to pursue one of the three post-graduate courses — M Tech, M Plan and M Design.

Eligible students from these courses can earn a monthly assistantship by doing teaching and research related work at the campus for few hours every week.

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies has also has released an official notification inviting eligible candidates for admission to Bachelor of Design (BDes) and Master of Design (MDes) in Transport Design and Industrial Design programme for the academic session 2017.

The application fees is Rs 1850 and the last date to apply is February 10, 2017.